Jazz, blues and childhood nostalgia. Cheerful melancholy.
With the fabulous, but mostly unknown, singing pianist Martha Davis (‘the black Pia Beck’) & her Spouse, the inventive Swe-Danes (singer Alice Babs with Svend Asmussen and Ulrik Neuman) in ‘The Scandinavian Shuffle’, theremin genius Dr Samuel J Hoffman (who added the eerie sounds to the score of Hitchcock’s film ‘Spellbound’), the song that once won an Oscar and has suddenly become so controversial: ‘Baby it’s cold outside’, Toon Hermans grumbling about ‘that darn bird’ in the Christmas tree, beautiful cowboy melancholy about a love letter that keeps being returned unopened by Pee Wee King and Redd Stewart, sitar artist Anton Karas and on top of that the Clark Sisters, the King’s Singers and poetic captivation by Lee Marvin in ‘something’ that was intended to be singing. In short, another Palace with some alluring hidden gems.
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